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| Time Division Multiplexing - A way for baseband to send multiple signals on a single cable by dividing a channel into time slots. |
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| Frequency Division Multiplexing - Media is split into two channels for broadband transmission. |
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| this refers to the weakening of data signals as they travel through a respective media. |
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| Attenuation and Chromatic Dispersion |
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| What are the three types of Fiber-optic cable used in networking? |
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62.5 micron core / 125 micron cladding multinode
50 micron core / 125 micron cladding multinode
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| Left USB Type A, Right USB Type B |
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| Explain UTP and the 5-4-5 rule. |
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| Total of 5 physical segments, 4 repeaters, and 5 physical segments populated |
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| What is the advantage to 100BaseT4? |
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| It allows you to use older UTP cabling to perform 100Mbps transfer. |
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| What is the limitation to 100BaseT4? |
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| It uses all four pairs of wires of Cat 3,4,5 and is such prevented from using full-duplex transmission. |
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| What are the two IEEE standards that specify Gigabit transfer? |
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| What are the differences betweel 1000BaseLX/SX & CX? |
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| LX/SX use multimode fiber where CX uses STP. |
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| What is the 802.3ab standard? |
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| Gigabit Ethernet transfer over cat 5 UTP cable. 1000BaseT |
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| What is the IEEE standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet? |
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| What are the three specifications for 802.3ae? |
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| 10GBaseSR, 10GBaseLR, 10GBaseER |
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